Eccentric Avalon Blue, past sixty, hides the secret initiations holding her hostage, forcing her to stay a loner traveling the world in eccentric clothes of her own design. She'd much rather be with others, but is forced into isolation and loneliness until she travels to Winter's Lee, a small northern fishing village. There she meets Lucian and Melanie who are cousins and best friends, Travelers who have settled back into Winter's Lee, planning to be bored and lonely until their demise from old age. That is, until Avalon arrives unexpectedly, a muddy, squalling little messenger that flings itself into their arms, introducing her emotional, imaginative journey involving Shamans, animal totem, tattoos and a mysterious island, into their sedate lives. Avalon Blue is hiding the animal tattoos she received there under a clothing line she developed to hide them. She lives a sad, lonely life as a runaway hermit. She accepts that her Spirit teachers have tasked her to tend to her life lessons in an indigenous way that might raise questions in other cultures. This is an awesome, inspiring, humorous story of an odd, misplaced illustrated older woman's journey through a life that pushes her into bigger understandings of life. Charming and ditzy, Avalon makes her way through a life woven with ageless magic to eventually meet another lost soul who is her match and mate. Lucian, Melanie, Bart, and Avalon Blue is a story where the never ending expansion of the soul meets love in daily life.6x9". 325 pages. You won't be able to put it down!